A SHOPKEEPER caught selling counterfeit films, computer games and music albums at a tabletop sale in Coventry could face jail....

A SHOPKEEPER caught selling counterfeit films, computer games and music albums at a tabletop sale in Coventry could face jail.

Tariq Nadeem Afridi, aged 34, of Balliol Road, Wyken, admitted six charges of distributing counterfeit goods and four counts of possessing unclassified video recordings when he appeared before Coventry magistrates yesterday.

His case was adjourned for a month for pre-sentence reports because magistrates said a fine would not be a strong enough punishment.

Vicki Buckley, prosecuting on behalf of Coventry City Council, said a trading standards officer attended a tabletop sale at the AT7 Centre, in Austin Drive, Courthouse Green, Coventry, one Saturday last November.

He went to a stall being run by Afridi and another man, where he bought a copy of the computer game Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? for #5. The officer noticed that the stall was selling films such as Billy Elliot, which weren't yet out on video.

The officer attended the following week's sale accompanied by police and a representative of a software licensing organisation. They found Afridi had a cardboard box and a holdall containing recordable CDs which had computer games, music and films copied on to them.

Afridi's home in Broad Lane, Coventry, was also searched, along with his shop, Millennium, in Walsgrave Road.

The CDs seized contained 116 PlayStation games, 132 video recordings and 95 computer programmes. There were also 12 cassettes and 29 videos - some pornographic - which did not have classifications.

Experts who examined the CDs said they had been copied using computer CD-writer machines.

The sleeves had been copied and colour-printed on to sticky labels.

Afridi told trading standards officers he had paid a stranger #100 for two bags of CDs at a sale about a month before. He knew they weren't genuine and had sold between 30 and 40 such CDs.

Peter Wood, defending, said Afridi was a family man who had never been in trouble before and was ashamed. He said: "He was not doing this in a professional manner. He purchased these items and took the foolish and naive step of selling them."